Shift your Lens to a Positive One! START TODAY!

Remember fast-talking Shawn Achor with the unicorn sister? Achor says in just 21 days, the following exercises can transform a pessimist into an optimist. 

Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, says you can rewire your brain to make yourself happy by practising simple happiness exercises. 

And within 30 days, those habits change the neuropathways of our brains and turn us into lifelong optimists.

These six daily happiness exercises are proven to make anyone, from a 4-year old to an 84-year old, happy, or simply happier, Achor says.

1. Gratitude Exercises. Write down three things you're grateful for that occurred over the last 24 hours. They don't have to be profound. It could be a really good cup of coffee or the warmth of a sunny day. 
2. The Doubler. Take one positive experience from the past 24 hours and spend two minutes writing down every detail about that experience. As you remember it, your brain labels it as meaningful and deepens the imprint.
3. The Fun Fifteen. Do 15 minutes of a fun cardio activity, like gardening or walking the dog, every day. The effects of daily cardio can be as effective as taking an antidepressant.
4. Meditation. Every day take two minutes to stop whatever you're doing and concentrate on breathing. Even a short mindful break can result in a calmer, happier you.
5. Conscious act of kindness. At the start of every day, send a short email or text praising someone you know. Our brains become addicted to feeling good by making others feel good.
6. Deepen Social Connections. Spend time with family and friends. Our social connections are one of the best predictors for success and health, and even life expectancy.

The Action for Happiness Initiative also has a great way to remember the steps to happiness they call it the GREAT DREAM.

Today, we are going to put to work some of their practical ideas about how to shift your thinking to the POSITIVE. :)

1) Mindfulness! 

Let's Try Something New - a Kindness Meditation:

http://www.emmaseppala.com/18-science-based-reasons-try-loving-kindness-meditation-today/ 

2) Three Good Things

3) Letters or Cards of Thanks

4) Extra Acts of Kindness

5) Use Your Strengths - we will do this on Monday.
6) Look for the Good in People - we will also do this on Monday.

Happiness Continued!

1) Some Secrets to Happiness!
(Shawn Achor's take on Positive Psychology)

https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work?language=en

2) Library Time for Assignment 

• Go to SchoolShare Drive
• Open up the !Career8 folder
• Open up the folder HappyDoc
• SAVE WITH YOUR NAME FIRST before you begin to type.

Due by the end of class.

Mind Styles and Happy!

Mind Styles

Everyone’s brain is unique.

However, there are four mind styles that can help us to better understand ourselves, our friends and our family.

How does your mind work? Let’s find out today! 

Discussion Question

What are the keys to happiness?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/lifetime-connections/201507/4-keys-happiness

And Finally... 

...let's start watching the documentary Happy because if you aren't HAPPY how will you ever become truly successful?! 

Your Personality. Your Future Career.

1) Update on our Robot Conversation - check this out: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/11/17/16671328/boston-dynamics-backflip-robot-atlas 

2) Overdue Work - 5 things I know about me!  And Monday's worksheet and MyBlueprint work. If you don't have a MyBlueprint account, get one now.

3) Let's Double Check your personality type.

Score this test: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp 

Did you get the same personality type?What changed?What stayed the same?
Pick the personality type that you think best suits you.

4) Log-in to My Blueprint to find your work for the day.

Monday To Do

1) Signup for a My Blueprint account. 

VISIT myBlueprint.ca/sd71 

HOW TO CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT 

Select School from the Blue New User Box 

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Create Account

You will need to use an email you actually can access to create an account. If you don't have one, did you know you have a free school district one in your Microsoft 365 suite of online tools? Just go to the school webpage and click on the Utility Links tab on the top left of the page, then select Microsoft 365, then select email - EASY! (Your email = schoolnumber@learn71.ca) Also, be sure to create a password you will remember. 

2) Find the Who AM I link under the menu on the left to complete the Surveys.

3)) Complete your assignment worksheet  - it is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cAOSCXzj3cJE1odlsNZgAVrpXC7VH8Gc/view?usp=sharing 

PS - you will eventually need to go to your email and confirm your account.

Welcome

1) Meet the Creature! (Teacher)

2) Course Outline

3) Intro Questions

• What do you want to be when you grow up?
  
• What did you want to be when you were really little?
  
• And what's a crazy thing you wish you could be if you could, if nothing could get in your way?

Let's see what you know about the future of careers already...

4) What jobs are going to be in demand (in BC) when you are adults in 10 years?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/10-jobs-expected-to-be-in-the-highest-demand-in-bc-over-the-next-decade/article19576019/

https://www.workbc.ca/Labour-Market-Industry/Jobs-in-Demand/Top-Occupations.aspx

 

5) What STEM education is getting the most work right now?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/stem-jobs-industry-careers.html

6) If you get an ARTS degree are you really going to end up a starving artist?

https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/common-jobs-for-majors/art 

7) Will robots and automation take over a lot of jobs?

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/03/19/automation-canada-jobs_n_15470074.html

and

https://www.wired.com/2017/08/robots-will-not-take-your-job/

Your Tech-n-Media Life

How many POSITIVE effects of a media and tech soaked world and life can we think of?

How many NEGATIVE effects of a media and tech soaked world and life can we think of?

Is your generation being harmed?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/

Is your brain being changed? http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/marketplace-phones-1.4384876 


Tech Survey - https://goo.gl/forms/uAA6qDkAWrUruLjH2 

#being thirteen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-9LtTtkg04

Did you know you that your future employers will google you? Did you know that some of you will lose your jobs for cell phone use and some of you might even lose your jobs for social media activity?

My Blueprint Tasks

Day 1 

1) Surveys Complete the Learning Styles, Personality, Interests and Knowledge Surveys.

2) Set at least a couple of goals for yourself

3) Add interests and hobbies to your Resume.

4) Hand-in the Activity Worksheet

Day 2

5) Explore your job matches - and find EIGHT Careers of Interest.

6) Fill-in the 8 Careers of Interest worksheet.

Day 3

7) Pick THREE careers that most interest you. Then start your work on the Career Project.

From Preferences to Inspiration to Careers...

1) Hand-in Happy Questions and Big Five Personality Questions

2) Inspirational Video for the Day!



3) My BluePrint 

VISIT myBlueprint.ca/sd71 

HOW TO CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT 

Select School from the Blue New User Box 

+

Create Account

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Find Ms Colborne's Class
(request link)

4)  Work on Portfolio

If you can be one thing, be kind...

Please hand-in your Big Five personality traits results.


1) Remember fast-talking Shawn Achor with the unicorn sister? Achor says in just 21 days, the following exercises can transform a pessimist into an optimist. 

Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, says you can rewire your brain to make yourself happy by practising simple happiness exercises. 

And within 30 days, those habits change the neuropathways of our brains and turn us into lifelong optimists.

These six daily happiness exercises are proven to make anyone, from a 4-year old to an 84-year old, happy, or simply happier, Achor says.

1. Gratitude Exercises. Write down three things you're grateful for that occurred over the last 24 hours. They don't have to be profound. It could be a really good cup of coffee or the warmth of a sunny day. 
2. The Doubler. Take one positive experience from the past 24 hours and spend two minutes writing down every detail about that experience. As you remember it, your brain labels it as meaningful and deepens the imprint.
3. The Fun Fifteen. Do 15 minutes of a fun cardio activity, like gardening or walking the dog, every day. The effects of daily cardio can be as effective as taking an antidepressant.
4. Meditation. Every day take two minutes to stop whatever you're doing and concentrate on breathing. Even a short mindful break can result in a calmer, happier you.
5. Conscious act of kindness. At the start of every day, send a short email or text praising someone you know. Our brains become addicted to feeling good by making others feel good.
6. Deepen Social Connections. Spend time with family and friends. Our social connections are one of the best predictors for success and health, and even life expectancy.

2) Let's Try Something New - a Kindness Meditation:

http://www.emmaseppala.com/18-science-based-reasons-try-loving-kindness-meditation-today/ 

3) Happy Questions, Achor Exercises and Colborne's Kindness Case Studies!

(handout)

Have a great weekend!

Homework: Practice kindness and gratitude.

Happy, Happy, Happy!

1) Opening Discussion

The Hedonic Treadmill?
(Hedonism vs Altruism)

Huh?

and

What was that thing about Intrinsic Values vs Extrinsic Values?

2) Watch the rest of the Happy Documentary. 

3) Plus... a little glimmer of Positive Psychology:

Some Secrets to Happiness!

https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work?language=en

More Personality Tests! And Happy...

Review Last Class - an awkward start on our portfolios. But, we will figure it out! We are awesome!

"Pop Quiz" - What were the three keys to success that Elon Musk recommends ( I read them out last class)?

Two Personality Inventories - The Big Five Inventory and Myers Briggs Type Indicator

And Finally... let's start watching the documentary Happy... cuz if you aren't Happy how will you ever become successful?

Monday = Lab Day!

1) Homework - If you did not hand-in your thinking inventories and questions (from last class), please complete this work first and hand it in. Ask me or a classmate for help, if you're stuck.

2) Discussion 

What are the keys to being successful?

Here is what a very successful dude, Elon Musk, thinks.

3) Let's Start Building that Portfolio!

• Go to the school website
• Click on Utility Links
  
• Click on Office 365
  

• Open "Sway" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8nWm8IhpOk 
• Let's Play!
• Upload a photo of you. If you don't have one online let's take one today!
• Name your portfolio - Your First name and Last name - Positive Impact Portfolio.
• Create at least 3 slides all about you - Some suggestions - Passions, Thinking Styles, Impressions of High School so far.

Let's finish those inspirational quote posters if we have time. 

How do you think?

Class Brainstorm

How do we learn?

What can get in the way of learning?

You have to know who you are, what your strengths, preferences and skills are, and how you think, in order to better understand the decisions you make. And, reflecting on our preferences and skills helps us identify the steps we need to take to achieve our career goals in the future.

So, let's get started!


Thinking Style Questionnaire 1 (we will do this on paper)

Thinking Styles Work Sheet (we will also do this on paper)

Given these two personal assessments, answer the following questions on a sheet of lined paper.

1) Did you score as a more right -brain or more left-brain style of thinker? Do you think this matches up with who you are? See the notes below for ideas of what to write about.

The Right Brain

According to the left-brain, right-brain dominance theory, the right side of the brain is best at expressive and creative tasks. Some of the abilities popularly associated with the right side of the brain include:

• Recognizing faces
• Expressing emotions
• Music
• Reading emotions
• Color
• Images
• Intuition
• Creativity

The Left Brain

The left-side of the brain is considered to be adept at tasks that involve logic, language, and analytical thinking. The left-brain is described as being better at:

• Language
• Logic
• Critical thinking
• Numbers
• Reasoning

2) What strategies do you think you will use, from the right-brain/left-brain worksheet? List two and how they can help you with your high school work.

3) What Thinking Style did you get? Abstract Random? Concrete Random? Abstract Sequential? Concrete Sequential? Pick five qualities from the chart and in one sentence describe how it suits you.

ex. I learn best when able to work in friendly environments - This is so true, as I get super frustrated when I have to work with someone who is grumpy!

- Inspirational Quotes!

Welcome!

1) Meet the Creature! (Teacher)

2) Course Outline

3) Intro Questions

What do you want to be when you grow up?
What did you want to be when you were really little?
And what's a crazy thing you wish you could be if you could, if nothing could get in your way?

4) Inspirational Quotes

Happy Summer!

Last days...

 Career Project DUE! Who is ready to share...?

And.. and end of the year inspirational film. Last class I am bringing my popcorn machine!!

2. The Pursuit Of Happiness (2006)

The Pursuit Of Happyness is the amazing real-life tale of Chris Gardner who, with the power of hard work and perseverance, takes himself from sleeping on the subway all the way to the millionaire founder of his own brokerage house.

Never missing an opportunity and studying hard, after a few years, Chris works his way up the career ladder from medical equipment salesman to financial hotshot. If there's one story that demonstrates that you should never give up, no matter how bad things get, it's this one.

Careers and Interests Cont'd

First - watch rest of One Week Job

What should you be when you grow up?

The first step to understanding what careers could work for you, is to better understand your interests and abilities.

Today, we will take four-five quizzes that will help you to do just that!

((BUT FIRST - did you do this work last week??? If not, do it now!))

• First, try out the career clusters checklists at: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/career-planning/find-careers/career-clusters.shtml Copy and paste the results into a word document that you save to the HCE8>Careers folder.
• Then, do the Which Careers Match My Skills Checklist: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/career-planning/find-careers/careers.shtml Copy and Paste the results into a word document that you save to the HCE8>Careers folder.
• Then, do the Self Assessments - all four of them at: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/index.shtml Copy and Paste the results into a word document that you save to the HCE8>Careers folder.

Quiz #1 - The Enneagram http://similarminds.com/test.html 

Quiz #2 - The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asphttp://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

Quiz #3-5 - Work BC https://www.workbc.ca/CareerCompass/Career-Quiz.aspx 

When you are done EACH ONE, copy the results into a word document where you will save the results from all the interest surveys that we do.

Careering Continues

Review Career Clusters: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2_H3hKK6a0zaFJ3ZWpJem52dk0/view?usp=sharing

Career Cluster Quiz!

And... One Week Job.  
(Write down every single job he tries out. See if you can get all 52 figured out. Is there one that you would like to try?)

Career Explorations Begin!

1) But first, how would you summarize the (mental/physical) HEALTH/WELLNESS part of this class in one sentence?









Here is my last word, well, actually Don Miguel Ruiz's last word on wellness:

Okay, let's move on! But, try to remember some of the ideas from this class... they could make all the difference. :)

2) With only 8 classes left, it's time to start exploring your possible future careers!

• We're talking about Career Clusters today!
• Read all of these together.... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2_H3hKK6a0zaFJ3ZWpJem52dk0/view?usp=sharing
  There will be a quiz! Read carefully.
  
  While you fill in this...https://scholarmatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Career-Interest-Survey.pdf  You have a paper copy.
• LIBRARY TIME:
  
  First, try out the career clusters checklists at: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/career-planning/find-careers/career-clusters.shtml Copy and paste the results into a word document that you save to the HCE8>Careers folder.
  
• Then, do the Which Careers Match My Skills Checklist: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/career-planning/find-careers/careers.shtml Copy and Paste the results into a word document that you save to the HCE8>Careers folder.
• Then, do the Self Assessments - all four of them at: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/index.shtml Copy and Paste the results into a word document that you save to the HCE8>Careers folder.

Being Thirteen

Our Questions - Results!

• What did we learn that's interesting?

Finish Watching Being Thirteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-9LtTtkg04

Library - assignment on Shared Drive under HCE>Social Media Q's

Youth Health News and Thinking Critically about Tech

1) Youth Health Issues in the News

Caffeine - http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/caffeine-coroner-1.4116942

A South Carolina teenager who collapsed in a high school classroom last month died because he drank several highly caffeinated drinks too quickly, a coroner says. 

Davis Allen Cripe, 16, drank a latte from McDonald's, a large Mountain Dew soda, and a highly caffeinated energy drink in just under two hours, said Gary Watts, the coroner of Richland County, South Carolina.

Watts told Reuters by phone that physicians on his staff determined that Cripe died from a "caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a probable arrhythmia."

According to caffeineinformer.com, a McDonald's latte has 142 milligrams of caffeine, a 20-ounce Mountain Dew has 90 milligrams, and a 16-ounce energy drink can have as much as 240 milligrams.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS TRAGEDY?

Partying, Alcohol, and Callous Disregard for Life - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/penn-state-fraternity-hazing-death-timothy-piazza-family-speaks-out/

According to the grand jury report, Beta Theta Pi pledges were forced to consume heavy amounts of alcohol in a short amount of time as part of a hazing ritual. Within three hours, prosecutors say Piazza fell down a flight of basement stairs. He was then hit and humiliated repeatedly while in and out of consciousness. And, despite an obvious head-injury no one called for help. 
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS TRAGEDY?

2) Your Life with Tech

How many ways can we think of that we interact with technology?



Tech Survey - https://goo.gl/forms/XFGlueulx5TGyiYr2

#being thirteen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-9LtTtkg04